To Florus · §4.71 · Julian of Eclanum

To Florus 4.71

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I admit, however, that you thought very hard about what to say. Your talent and your effort are evident. You certainly weighed most skillfully what should be asserted on behalf of inherited sin. No one else could have written more cleverly for natural evil. Indeed, even you could not have accomplished it so elegantly had your old teacher’s inventions not helped your talent.

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Fateor tamen, nimis te cogitasse, quid diceres; et ingenium tuum apparet, et studium; solertissime prorsus quid asserendum esset pro peccati traduce ponderasti; nemo alter callidius scribere potuisset pro naturali malo; quod quidem nec tu ipse tam urbane implere potuisses, nisi ingenium tuum magistri veteris commenta iuvissent.